Ravishing in red were three lucky ladies, all in body-hugging crimson dresses: Kate Upton roaming the red carpet in Los Angeles; Eva Longoria leaving her restaurant, Besos, in L.A.; and Blake Lively on the Gossip Girl set.

First staged at the Old Vic Theater in London, Mr. Jones’s interpretation, designed by Stewart Laing, is ravishing enough to please the sort of aesthetes who worship Robert Wilson’s exquisite dreamscapes.

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Origin and Etymology of ravish

Middle English ravisshen, from Anglo-French raviss-, stem of ravir, from Vulgar Latin *rapire, alteration of Latin rapere to seize, rob — more at rapid